∆ Fig. 1

This is an audio recording, a timely re-telling from Perec’s original text – ‘An Attempt’. Taking one of the itinerant chapters I retell and discover the buoyant texture and sounds of Perec’s language. So this re-telling comes to the day, hour, minute and at the same location, but 40 years later. So let this be ‘An(other) Attempt’. The text begins: Date, 18 October 1974. Time, 3.20pm. Location: La Fontain Saint Sulpice. Later on I went…